Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday urged party workers to remain vigilant at polling booths, alleging that the BJP was manipulating electoral rolls by adding bogus votes and deleting legitimate votes of opposition supporters.
The party has lost its credibility and can no longer win through collusion,” Yadav said. “The public has understood the BJP’s dishonesty and deceit. He added that people were waiting for the announcement of election dates to remove the BJP from power. Claiming that public opinion favoured an SP government, he cited the unity of the PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak), representing backward classes, Dalits and minorities. He also alleged discrimination against teachers, graduates and young people. Yadav further claimed that Uttar Pradesh had recorded the highest number of paper leaks in the country and alleged that these were deliberate. “The achievements of the BJP government are zero.
He claimed that more than 26,000 primary schools had been shut down in the past 10 years, while the number of liquor shops had increased. Because of their unity and that they were being denied justice, he alleged that the BJP government and the chief minister were harassing these communities.
The SP chief said people across Uttar Pradesh were dissatisfied with the government and wanted a change. On education, Yadav accused the state government of weakening the education and examination systems through what he termed a “conservative and regressive mindset”. Accusing the BJP government of corruption and stalled development, he said farmers, youth, teachers and students had been let down. Its only agenda is to waste time in power, spread lies and defame the opposition,” he said.
